Technology

Professor Simon Milne (Director NZTRI) will give a presentation as part of the 2013 Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture Series at the University of Auckland. The theme of the four lectures in the series is: The Internet: Today and the Future.

Auckland is by far New Zealand's most popular destination, welcoming about 70 per cent of international arrivals. The question is: what does the rest of the world think of us? And what better place to find out than from the horse's mouth - social media.

The creation of www.westernsouthland.co.nz brings the whole community together to develop the content of their web pages using open source software created by AUT University's New Zealand Tourism Research Institute (NZTRI).Director of NZTRI, Professor Simon Milne, says the website is like no other. "It's a tourism marketing and development tool as well as a community building instrument for the people and businesses of the area."

Tourism 'needs to get tech savvy' - New Zealand could be attracting half a million more visitors a year by better using interactive technology like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, says an American tourism marketing expert.Philip Wolf, chief executive of PhoCusWright... [NZ Herald]